Pedrocortesella calmorum, Hunt, 1996

Hunt, Glenn S., 1996, A review of the genus Hexachaetoniella Paschoal in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Pedrocortesellidae), Records of the Australian Museum 48 (3), pp. 223-286 : 246

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.48.1996.431

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4659243

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0387B964-3976-FFC1-FE57-FCA2FB40F60A

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pedrocortesella calmorum
status

n.sp.

Pedrocortesella calmorum n.sp.

Figs 16, 17

Type material. Western Australia: HOLOTYPE adult , WAM, 13.5 km N.E. of Crystal Head, S. w. Osborne Island , CALM site 1111, 14°23'S 125°57'E, rainforest litter GoogleMaps , CALM staff, 25- 31 January 1989 . PARATYPE adults. WAM, 4 km W. of King Cascade , CALM site 28/3, 15°38'S 125°15'E, closed forest litter GoogleMaps , ANIC berlesate 1078, TA Weir, 12- 16 June 1988, 7 adults ; AM KS43675 , same data, 7 adults ; ANIC, same data, 7 adults (plus series ofnon-type nymphs probably ofthis species) ; FMNH, same data, 7 adults ; CNC, same data, 7 adults .

Other material examined. Western Australia: AM KS46531 , SEM stub no. S/162 (i11.), 13.5 km N.E. of Crystal Head, s.w. Osborne Island , CALM site 1111, 14°23'S 125°57'E, rainforest litter GoogleMaps , CALM staff, 25- 31 January 1989, 2 adults ; AM KS46532 , SEM stub no. SI112 (il1.), Camp Creek, 1 km S. of mining camp, Mitchell Plateau, Kimberleys , 14°51'S 125°50'E GoogleMaps , ANIC berlesate 875, J. Balderson, 13 May 1983, I adult ; AM KS46534 , SEM stub no. S1151-04 (il1.), Prince Frederick Harbour , "Marun" CALM site 8/4, 15°00'S 125°21'E, closed forest litter GoogleMaps , ANIC berlesate 1081, LD. Naumann, 6- 11 June 1988, 1 adult ; AM KS43676 , same data, 1 adult ; AM KS46533 , SEM stub no. S/341, Augustus Island , CALM site 2611, 15°25'S 124°38'E, closed forest litter GoogleMaps , ANIC berlesate 1082A, LD. Naumann, 11-16 June 1988, 1 adult .

Diagnosis. Body medium-large, length about 600-700 f,lm; scalps rarely (if at all) carried by adult; sensillus with long flattened tuberculate blade; notogaster densely reticulate-punctate but lateral margins alveolate, with caudal notch when viewed from above, 5 pairs of notogastral setae; genital and anal vestibules close; genitoanal chaetotaxy 7:1:2:3, genital setae in slightly arcuate file, level of insertion of ad3 at about half length of anal valve, adanal setae short; claw stalk short.

WAM

Western Australian Museum

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

TA

Timescale Adventures Research and Interpretive Center

AM

Australian Museum

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes